xxxii, 494 pages ; 26 cm

In the past few years, a new generation of progressive intellectuals has dramatically transformed how law, race, and racial power are understood and discussed in America. Questioning the old assumptions of both liberals and conservatives with respect to the goals and the means of traditional civil rights reform, critical race theorists have presented new paradigms for understanding racial injustice and new ways of seeing the links between race, gender, sexual orientation, and class. This reader, edited by the principal founders and leading theoreticians of the critical race theory movement, gathers together for the first time the movement's most import essays. -- Back cover

Includes bibliographical references

Serving two masters : integration ideals and client interests in school desegregation litigation / Derrick A. Bell, Jr. -- Brown v. Board of Education and the interest convergence dilemma / Derrick A. Bell, Jr.-- Legitimizing racial discrimination through antidiscrimination law : a critical review of Supreme Court doctrine / Alan David Freeman -- The imperial scholar : reflections on a review of civil rights literature / Richard Delgado -- Looking to the bottom : critical legal studies and reparations / Mars Matsuda

The clouded prism : minority critique of the critical legal studies movement / Harlon L. Dalton -- Beyond critical legal studies : the reconstructive theology of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / Anthony E. Cook -- Race, reform, and retrenchment : transformation and legitimation in antidiscrimination law / Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw -- Race-consciousness / Gary Peller -- A cultural pluralist case for affirmative action in legal academia / Duncan Kennedy -- Translating "Yonnondio" by precedent and evidence : the Mashpee Indian case / Gerald Torres, Kathryn Milun

Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC : regrouping in singular times / Patricia J. Williams -- Groups, representation, and race-conscious districting : a case of the emperor's clothes / Lani Guinier -- The id, the ego, and equal protection : reckoning with unconscious racism / Charles R. Lawrence, III -- A critique of "our constitution is color-blind" / Neil Gotanda -- Whiteness as property / Cheryl I. Harris -- Race in the twenty-first century : equality through law? / Linda Greene -- Racial realism / Derrick A. Bell, Jr. -- Critical race theory, Archie Shepp, and fire music : securing an authentic intellectual life in a multicultural world / John O. Calmore

Two life stories : reflections of one black woman law professor / Taunya Lovell Banks -- The word and the river : pedagogy as scholarship as struggle / Charles R. Lawrence, III -- Mapping the margins : intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color / Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw -- Punishing drug addicts who have babies : women of color, equality, and the right of privacy / Dorothy E. Roberts -- Sapphire bound! / Regina Austin -- Navigating the topology of race / Jayne Chong-Soon Lee -- The boundaries of race : political geography in legal analysis / Richard Thomson Ford -- Rouge et noir reread : a popular constitutional history of the Angelo Herndon case / Kendall Thomas

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